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...newcomers enter at their own risk. Old immunities disappear as members are forced to take positions and cast votes, providing the very specifics to voters and potential opponents they so carefully avoided this campaign. Unless overnight sensations like Stockman and Frist perform sensationally, they may find the broom that swept the old coots out of office ready to be used again...
...Crimson swept all 14 of the swimming events, plus both the one-meter and three-meter diving competitions...
...whole team was very successful," Younger said. "We swept all of the events. We supported each other as a whole--the meet was very exciting...
...seat--and few think that residence is permanent. And even in Hockey East, Northeastern lost to Yale, then beat BU, then lost to B.U...it's all got the consistency of the stock market. When nobody knows what's coming next, a few early L's can be swept out the door like the 103rd Congress...
Blazing oil borne by floodwaters swept into an Egyptian town, killing some 500 people, many of them incinerated as they slept. Survivors "thought it was the Day of Judgment," according to one witness who saw "a wave of people running toward the mosque screaming 'There is only one God!' " The conflagration in Durunka, located 213 miles south of Cairo, was ignited when government oil- storage tanks ruptured and spilled their inflammable contents...